{"id":374737,"date":"2025-08-26T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374737\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:53:10","slug":"pm-bayrou-risks-ouster-as-france-prepares-for-september-8-confidence-vote-pm-bayrou-risks-ouster-as-france-prepares-for-september-8-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374737\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Bayrou Risks Ouster as France Prepares for September 8 Confidence Vote PM Bayrou Risks Ouster as France Prepares for September 8 Confidence Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rabat \u2013 France is heading into fresh political uncertainty after Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou asked for a confidence vote on his debt-cutting plan to be held on September 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opposition parties from both the far right and the hard left have already vowed<\/a><\/strong> to bring him down, while unions and activists are calling for mass anti-austerity protests and a nationwide shutdown on September 10.<\/p>\n

Bayrou surprised the country on Monday when he asked President Emmanuel Macron to call an extraordinary session of parliament. He needs lawmakers\u2019 support for his plan to cut France\u2019s soaring public debt, but many parties have rejected his proposals.<\/p>\n

The measures, which include reducing the number of public holidays, aim to save around \u20ac44 billion ($51 billion).<\/p>\n

The plan has been unpopular with the public, sparking anger across the political spectrum. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said parliament should be dissolved, while far-left leader Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon demanded that Macron resign if Bayrou loses the vote. \u201cMacron is chaos,\u201d M\u00e9lenchon told France Inter radio.<\/p>\n

The stakes are high. If Bayrou is defeated, he would become the second prime minister in less than a year to be ousted by parliament, after Michel Barnier was toppled in December 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That would also leave President Macron searching<\/a> <\/strong>for his seventh prime minister, which would further weaken his authority in the last two years of his term. Macron has already faced repeated calls to step down since dissolving parliament in 2024, a move that plunged French politics into crisis.<\/p>\n

Government ministers are urging compromise, but they admit all options remain open. Justice Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin said dissolution of parliament \u201cmust not be ruled out,\u201d even if it would be costly. Economy Minister Eric Lombard insisted the government must \u201cfight\u201d to pass the budget because \u201cthe country needs it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabat \u2013 France is heading into fresh political uncertainty after Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou asked for a confidence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,12184],"class_list":{"0":"post-374737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-prime-minister"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115094696922027900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}